Hair-crimper.



P. C. GRAULE.

HAIR GRIMPER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18, 1910.

993,056, Patented May 23, 1911.

WITNESSES:

. I INVENTOR wmim A0 6% PHILIP C. GRAULE, OF ROCHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAIR-CRIMPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1911.

Application filed June 18, 1910. Serial No. 567,655.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, PHILIP C. GRAULE, residing at Rochester, in thecounty of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, a citizen of the UnitedStates, have invented or discovered a certain new and useful Improvementin Hair-Crimpers, of which improvement-the following is a specification.

It has heretofore been proposed to make an article for the purposeindicated, of suitable material possessing some resiliency, consisting,generally stated, of a strip bent upon itself, and having pivoted withinits open end the ends of blades or fingers of suitable length to beclosed within said bent For purposes of strength, and in stri ordir toafford a spring action to the sides of the bent strip when in use, itsclosed bent end was enlarged, or formed with a swell, all as shown inLetters Patent No. 884,339.

It is the purpose of this invention to provide other and diiferent meansfor imparting to an article of this type the necessary strength, and forbetter conserving its resiliency.

Other improvements will also be described.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective View of ahair-crimper embodying the invention, with the blades in .open position;Fig. 2 represents the article in use; Fig. 8 is a. perspective view of apreferred form of clamp.

The strip 1 is bent upon itself as shown, but the bend is a regular one.without the enlargement or swell described in the Letters'Patc-nt abovereferred to. Between the free ends of the strip 1 are pivoted, as by arivet 2, the blades 3, which are of such length that when folded withinthe bent strip 1 their free ends will be somewhat short of the wall ofthe bend. It is preferred that the blades shall extend somewhat beyondthe pivotal point in the opposite direction in the form of tail portions4, by means of which the blades may be more easily manipulated.

For holding the strip and blades in closed relation in engagement withthe hair of the user, a suitable securing or clamping device is used, ofwhich a variety of forms will suggest themselves to an ordinarilyskilled mechanic. It is preferred however to employ the one-piecesliding clamp 5, consisting of the body portion 6, having the twoupstanding loops 7 and 8, the shallow loop 7 embracing one arm of thestrip 1, and the larger loop 8 embracing both arms, so that when thecrimper is closed the clamp may be shifted to a position wherein all thestrips will lie within the loop 8. The loop 8 permits the necessaryfiexure of the strips when in use, while at the same time binding thedevice sufliciently. It has also been found in practice that in thecrimper herein described the resiliency of the strips is conserved for amaterially longer time than is the case with other crimpers with which Iam acquainted; while in case the strips do become bent, they can bestraightened by sliding the clamp along the body of the crim-per.

I claim as my invention:

A hair-crimper consisting of a strip bent upon itself to form a loophaving oppositely disposed arms of equal length, in combination withblades pivoted between the free ends of the strip and adapted to befolded between said oppositely disposed arms, and a clamp slidablymounted on the strip for securing the blades and arms in closed relationconsisting of a body portion and a pair ofclosed loops, one of saidloops embracing one arm and the other embracing both arms of said bentstrip and adapted to receive the ends of the blades.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

PHILIP C. GRAU LE.

Witnesses:

ALICE A. TniLL, MARSHALL A. Cmus'rr.

